Cattle-guard.



.PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908.

n No. 891,127.

E. J. YORK.

CATTLE GUARD.

AFLIOATION FILED OOTQQ, 1907- me Nonms P o., wAsmNcfaN. n. c.

UNITED STATESBATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD JACKSON YORK, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, OF ONE-THIRD TO WALTER L. HOWZE, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, AND ONE-THIRD TO THOMAS W. CALDWELL, OF DUKE, TEXAS.

CATTLE-GUARD.

Application filed October 9, 1907.

T0 all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD JACKSON YORK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cattle Guards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a cattle guard of very simple, durable, and economic construction, that can be readily and quickly applied to any track, and which does not require in its application any extra timbers, ties, or excavation, and furthermore to so construct the cattle guard that it can be easily dismantled and replaced when the track is to be repaired.

It is the further purpose of the invention to provide a cattle guard that will not trap stock since there is no footing for them, and Wherein a smooth rolling surface is provided between and at the outer sides of the rails, practically fiush with the tread of the rails, so that should stock fall thereon they will not be injured, and may readily work themselves to one or the other side of the track.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this s ecification, in which similar characters of re erence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved guard applied to a track; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is a sectional view of one of the rollers employed Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the end supporting plates of the structure g Fig. 6 is a perspective view of an intermediate side supporting plate g and Fig. 7 is a` perspective view of an intermediate supporting plate adapted to be located between the rails,

A and A represent the rails of a track. The improved guard consists of a series of supporting plates, longitudinal bars, and rollers carried by the bars. The end plates B are shown in detail in Fig. 5. Each end plate consists of a base member 11 adapted to rest upon a tie and to extend preferably Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lune 16, 1908.

Serial No. 396,582.

the length thereof at its upper face, and the said base member 11 is provided at one longitudinal edge adjacent to its ends with hori- Zontal extensions 12, and these extensions 12 are so located with respect to the end portions of the base member 11., that when the base member of an end plate is on a tie and the rails are laid, the rails will rest upon the said extensions 12 and across the base member 11 adjacent to said extensions.

ln the further construction of an end plato B, an arched, upwardly extending flange 13 is formed at the same edge beyond which the extensions 12 are carried. This arched flange 13 extends from one extension to the other, and at the outer edge of each baseextension 12 another flange is formed at the same edge of the base member l1, and said outer fianges are designated as 14 and are given an upward and inward inclination. ln fact, the end flange 14 constitutes practically a continuation of the arch of the intermediate flange 13. When the rails are laid on the end plates B, the outer ends of the intermediate fianges 13 engage with the inner faces of the flanges of the rail, while the inner ends of the end Hanges 14 engage with the outer faces of the said rail flanges. The plate fiange 13 is provided with a series of apertures 15 and the end flanges 14 are provided with apertures 15, as is shown in Fig. 5.

ln addition to the end supporting plates B shown in Fig. 5, a series of intermediate supporting plates C is employed, adapted, however, to extend only from the inner face of one rail to the corresponding surface of the opposing rail. The intermediate plates C may be termed bed plates, and each intermediate bed plate C, as is shown in Fig. 7, consists of a base member 16 adapted for attachment to the upper face of a tie, and an upwardly arched flange 17 that extends by preference beyond the end portions of the base member 16, and the fiange 17 of the bed plate C corresponds to the flange 13 of the end plate B g and each flange 17 of an inter-I mediate bed plate C is provided with a series of apertures 18, corresponding in number and in locationto the apertures 15 in the flanges 13 of the end plates. In connection with each bed plate C, an outer or supporting plate D is employed which is shown in detail in Fig. 6. These end supporting plates D consist of an angular base section comprising a transverse member 19 and a longitudinal member 20, both of which members are adapted to be secured to the upper face of a tie adjacent to the outer faces of the rails, and the transverse member 2O of each end supporting plate D is placed beneath a rail and corresponds to an extension 12 from an end plate B. An upwardly extending flange 2 1 is carried from the longitudinal edge of the longitudinal member 19 of each of the end supporting plates D, and these flanges 21 are given an upward and inward inclination and correspond to the flanges 1.4 on the end plates B, and the flanges 21 are provided with apertures 22 corresponding to those in the afore-l said flanges 111. I desire it to be understood, however, that if desired all of the supporting plates may be constructed as is shown in Fig. 5, but the construction shown is preferred since it admits a more ready assemblage of the parts and a more expeditious removal lwhenthe track is to be repaired.

Rods 23 are arranged in parallelism between the rails A and A, and these rods are passed. through corresponding apertures in the flange portions of the supporting plates located between such rails, and at the ends of the structure approaching plates 24 and 24a are located, the plates 24 being between the rails and the plates 24a at the outside portions of the rails, and these approaching plates extend upward from the road bed to the upper edges of the flanges 13 of the end plates B, as is illustrated in Fig. 3, and each of the said approaching plates at its upper edge, or where it engages with an end plate B, is provided with a downwardly extending flange 25, as shown in Fig. 2, bearing against theouter faces of the end plates, and sundry of the rods 23 are passed through the flangesI is to say the rollers on adjacent rods alter-l nate, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

The rollers E are preferably made hollow and. of light steel, or other suitable material, and their peripheral surface 27 is flat but their side sections 28 are oval so that should a rod break on a train and trail over the rollers, there is little liability of the free end of such rod becoming entangled with, or being held between the rollers. The rollers E that are mounted on the side rods 26 are graduated in size, the largest form of roller which is of the same diameter as those between the rails, being .located adjacent to the rails, while those rollers that are furthest removed from the rails are of the smallest diameter, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2, and the rollers between the rails are also preferably graduated in size. the formation of the guard it is` arched between the rails and that its upper face is nearly flush with the tread of the rails, and that the guards at the sides of the rails have more or less of a downward and outward inclination at their upper surfaces.

lt is evident that a cattle guard of the type described may be quickly, conveniently, and economically erected and as readily dismantled when necessary, and that the rolling surface it presents is such as to prevent animals obtaining any foot-hold, and if by any possibility an animal should fall upon the surface of the guard, it is an easy matter for:

such animal to work itself to either one side or the other of the track.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-

1. A cattle guard consisting of a bed constructed of aseries of transverse plates, rods passed longitudinally through said plates, said rods being in parallelism, and rollers having oval sides mounted on the said rods the rollers of one rod alternating with the rollers of the adjacent rods and being in contact therewith, the said bed being divided into a central and outer sections, having spaces between them for the reception of the rails of a track, and members upon which the said rails rest. y

2. A cattle guard for railway tracks, con sisting of a body composed of a series of parallel transverse plates, a series of longitudinal rods arranged in parallelism and passed through said plates, and rollers having oval sides loosely mounted on the said rods, the rollers on adjacent rods being in alternate relation to each other' and in contact, the said bed being divided into a central section and outer sections, separated from each other by spaces for the passage of' the rails of the track, and tie sections for sundry of the plates that are adapted to engage with the under faces of the rails of the track said guard being arched transversely of the track. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDl/VARD JACKSON YORK. Witnesses:

BLANor-r Woon, Mrs. J. A. RHODES.

It will be understood that in 

